Mauro Giaconi

The work of Mauro Giaconi explores the possibilities of drawing as an expanded field, through which the artist reaches over other disciplines, such as sculpture and installation, in a way to investigate the architecture, the precariousness and the body as territories in conflict.

In this sense, the artist subverts both the role of paper as a medium, as well as the idea of drawing as the basal expression of general artistic practice. This leads towards the occupation of space, the performative gesture that emphases the corporal experience, and the intervention of objects and universal references belonging to the contemporary metanarrative.

Within the conceptual field, his works usually present contents and experiences that either clash or dissolve contrasts, such as birth and death, construction and demolition, freedom and imprisonment, in a thought-provoking gesture that revisits and questions the dichotomous signification of ideas.

Additionally, Mauro Giaconi conducts works as a critical agent for the art production system, having a co-founded in 2014 two important projects: Obrera Centro, a self-managed space for the promotion of interdisciplinary artistic experience, and HerratecA, a tools’ public library. Both cases reveal his interests on collaborative practices that create new spaces and transformative actions, under the assumption that progress and access in culture emerge from collectiveness and dialogue.

He has held solo exhibitions at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, and the Museo Universitario del Chopo, and has participated in group exhibitions at the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, the Centro Cultural Recoleta, and the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City.

His works are part of collections such as Colección Jumex, Fundación Calosa, SPACE Collection, and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art.